Tuesday, April 28, 2015

THE PROPOSAL PART 2. NEW SERIES

I won't be writing the whole series on my blog. I want you to get the book when it is out. Support a sister while she builds her castles. Lol.!!! If you haven't read the short story proposal, You may be a little lost in this one, not really lost but somewhat.
You can read it on Okadabooks for freehttp://okadabooks.com/book/about/8880.

So here is Part 2.

I don’t know
if you remember Maxwell from the proposal. Hmm

If you don’t let me remind you, so I used to date
this really nice man called Maxwell, the only problem, I was a complete asshole
to him so he decided to teach me a lesson by proposing to me on April 1st.
It was the worst April Fool’s joke I had ever encountered. I could not even
look at him after realizing that I had been fooled.

Fast forward a few months later I met this nice,
tall young man with dimples, yes I said it, dimples, he has the cutest smile
ever. I met him at my cousin’s little shindig and then we decided to hook up,
after about four dates he asked me to be his girlfriend. I was born in 1984, so
that actually makes me thirty one years old this year and did the punk ask me
to be his girlfriend.

“Sharon” Tunde said snapping me out of my day dream.

“Yes” I replied snapping back into reality.

“Did you hear what I asked?” he said looking
confused, the arch on his left brow was so sexy especially in the confused
state.

“I did, but I don’t think so” I replied. He looked
crestfallen,

“Why?” he asked.

“You are a great guy and all but” I began, he looked
at me so hard that the words I wanted to say just vanished. I wasn’t going to
turn him down but I had to let him know that I wasn’t what he was looking for.
Any female above thirty should not be “girlfriend material”. I don’t care if
you don’t agree with me but honestly speaking I have been someone’s girlfriend
since high school, can I at least get a break from that title?

“What is the problem?” he asked with a straight
face.

“I don’t want to be a girlfriend, I want to be a
future prospect, I have been a girlfriend all my life and I think it’s boring
for me already.” I responded not knowing how I was able to get the whole
sentence out of my mouth without my heart skipping a beat. He smiled. I don’t
know why he smiled and I also don’t know what he was thinking but I got a
little frazzled after watching him smile.

“I like the way you think but let us take one day at
a time at least get to know each other, hopefully we can end up liking each
other after we get to know each other’s bad habits, you may end up not liking
me after you find out that I don’t eat meat” he said and smiled.

“You don’t eat meat? “ I asked. I couldn’t stand
vegetarians, they made their choice for not eating meat like a religion, like
they were better than other people who ate meat, made people like me feel
unhealthy and I hope he wasn’t the kind who made that effortless announcement
in public about not eating meat.

“It’s been about a month, a new lifestyle change” he
replied and smiled.

“Oh a month, that is not long enough, you can still
slip back into your old ways, if you hang out with me well enough you probably
would” I told him.

“Then I would consider you a bad influence” he
replied. I felt selfish, but why in the world would someone decided to give up
meat, meat always made everything taste good, jollof rice and meat, fried rice
and meat, vegetable soup and meat, why on earth would he want to give up meat?
It sounded like a man who could see wanting to go blind, but I know that any of
the members of the vegetarian club would shoot me dead if I made the comparison
sound like that, they would probably tell me it was like getting your sight
back after blindness.

“Oh please” I said and waved my hand in disgust.
“What else are you trying to get rid of?” I asked.

“Are you serious?” You are quitting all the best
things in life” I shrieked. How could he want to quit alcohol? If we ever went
out on a date to celebrate something, we would pop apple cider instead of
champagne, or is he trying to be deliberately cheap because liquor is expensive
and I am not cheap, I won’t resort to soda not to even talk about water. He
also added eggs to the list, what is breakfast without eggs? What is moin moin
without eggs? I put eggs in my fried rice, I love eggs, they taste great, those
beautiful birds lay eggs that taste great why on earth would Tunde deprive
himself of eating eggs calling it a lifestyle choice. We would all die of
something one day so while we are still breathing it is best to eat all the
food available.

“I am quitting all the best things in life. You are
not quitting and I won’t hold it against you” Tunde replied.

“It will be awkward though” I said.

“How?” he asked looking at me intently.

“I would have a plate with dairy and you will just
eat mostly salad and other stuff” I replied folding my hands like a naughty
little girl. He laughed.

“Don’t feel that way. Everyone has their preferences”
he replied. “So back to the question?” he continued trying to get us back on
track to the girlfriend and potential wife question.

“I am not settling for girlfriend” I replied.

“Let’s take one day at a time” he soothed. After watching a whole lot of sermons after
Maxwell played me, I decided to play my cards right, Tunde looked like a king
but was acting like a joker right now. It was over three months and he hadn’t
said a single thing about knowing the color of my bra, sounds like a keeper
right or wrong. Don’t get me wrong, I am a freak, I love having sex and I beginning to feel
celibate, like my vagina walls are drying up, I haven’t had sex in over three
months, but how can I bring up the topic about having sex and not sound
desperate or like a slut and also did he give up sex too?

“I am not cut out for that, I have things that could
occupy my time and I need to know where I am headed, I am not a science
experiment, like a toy you play with and put back on the shelf, I am a real
woman with real feelings who intends to find someone who is on the same page
and get married and have kids, that is what I want, anything less than that
please keep it moving.” I told him, I couldn’t believe that I said all that in
one breath and I still kept a straight face. He looked defeated, he probably
didn’t think I would stick up for myself, I also didn’t think so either but I
am tired of men running in and out of my life like a bus stop. I needed to be
someone’s final destination, not a stop for a man to pick up another woman.

“I understand, I really like you but I haven’t
thought that far yet” he said. The words came out like a bomb from his mouth,
he hadn’t thought that far yet, did he think we were still in college taking
subjects and do homework later.